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In the mid-1930s, the future of judicial review was uncertain. Politicians, social activists, and even legal academics denounced the federal judiciary’s hostility toward New Deal legislation as a threat to democratic progress and economicrecovery. In the face of President Roosevelt’s “court-packing plan” and competing proposals to curb judicial power, conservative lawyers sough